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PublisherPurdue University Press
ISBN-10155753568X
ISBN-139781557535689
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Number of Pages348 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRepresenting Humanity in an Age of Terror
SubjectMedia Studies, Terrorism, Human Rights, World / General
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
AuthorSophia A. Mcclennen
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
SeriesComparative Cultural Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-009892
Table Of ContentIntroduction to Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror, by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello Part One: Human Rights Democracy's Promise and the Politics of Worldliness in the Age of Terror, by Henry A. Giroux The Humanities, Human Rights, and the Comparative Imagination, by Sophia A. McClennen The Logic and Language of Torture, by Jonathan H. Marks Narration in International Human Rights Law, by Joseph R. Slaughter On Linguistic Human Rights and the United States "Foreign" Language Crisis,by Domna Stanton The Black Body and Representations of the (In)human, by Li-Chun Hsiao Part Two: Media The Terrorist Event, by Bill Nichols Reading South African Media Representations of Islam after 11 September 2001, by Gabeba Baderoon Collateral Damage and the "Incident" at Haditha, by Tom Engelhardt The Tortured Body, the Photograph, and the US War on Terror, by Julie Gerk Hernandez Mass-Mediated Social Terror in Spain, by Nicholas Manganas Media in a Capitalist Culture, by Barbara Trent Part Three: Analysis Textual Strategies to Resist Disappearance and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, by Alicia Partnoy The Global Phenomenon of "Humanizing" Terrorism in Literature and Cinema, by Elaine Martin Landmines, HIV/AIDS, and Africa's New Generation, by Barbara Harlow Dorfman, Schubert, and Death and the Maiden, by David Schroeder Bearing Witness through Fiction, by Carolina Rocha Part Four: Artists Globalizing Compassion, Photography, and the Challenge of Terror, by Ariel Dorfman A Monk's Tale, by Sam Hamill Poetry and the Aesthetic of Morality, by Michael McIrvin Artists in Times of War, by Howard Zinn Part Five: Bibliography Selected Bibliography of Comparative Studies on Human Rights Culture , by Henry James Morello Contributors' Profiles Index
SynopsisWritten in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of this collected volume discuss aspects of terror with regard to human rights events across the globe, but especially in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Their discussion and reflection demonstrate that the need to question continuously and to engage in permanent critique does not contradict the need to seek answers, to advocate social change, and to intervene critically. With contributions by scholars, activists, and artists, the articles collected here offer strategies for intervening critically in debates about the connections between terror and human rights as they are taking place across contemporary society. The work presented in the volume is intended for scholars, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of the humanities and social sciences, including political science, sociology, history, literary study, cultural studies, and cultural anthropology., Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of the collected volume Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror - edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello - ask a series of questions: What definitions of humanity account for the persistence of human rights violations? How do we define terror, and how do we understand the ways that terror affects the representation of those that both suffer and profit from it? Why is it that the representation of terror often depends on a distorted (for example, racist, fascist, xenophobic, essentialist, and eliminationist) representation of human beings? And, most importantly, can representation, especially forms of art, rescue humanity from the forces of terror, or does it run the risk of making it possible? The authors of the volume's articles discuss aspects of terror with regard to human rights events across the globe, but especially in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Their discussion and reflection demonstrate that the need to question continuously and to engage in permanent critique does not contradict the need to seek answers, to advocate social change, and to intervene critically., Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of the collected volume Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror - edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello - ask a series of questions: What definitions of humanity account for the persistence of human ......, Discusses aspects of terror with regard to human rights events across the globe, but especially in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. This title demonstrates that the need to question continuously and to engage in permanent critique does not contradict the need to seek answers, to advocate social change, and to intervene critically.
LC Classification NumberJC571.R473 2010
